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This beautiful creature has an arm span of up to 50 cm with
delicate long arms joined at the base by webbing and studded
with small suckers. Like other octopuses it can change its form
and pattens on its body quite readily. Most divers may miss
this octopus as it buries itself under the sand during the day,
venturing out at night to feed. It sometimes can be seen drawing
its body into a long cigar shape and walking around. It has
a fairly restricted distribution from the Great Australian Bight
in SA to Vic and round Tasmania, and lives over sand or seagrass
down to 49 m deep.
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